Role of Women in Civil Disobedience Movement: With Special Reference to Bihar

Abstract

At the time of Gandhiji's arrival in India in 1914, as a result of the reforms made by the social reformers in the past, the status of women in educated families was improving and the process of change in social and educational beliefs towards women was going on.  But Gandhiji actually made a continuous effort to bring him out of the house for public service through the programs of Swaraj movement and to widen his virtues and to raise him with economic independence, courage and accountability by alerting him from evils. The contribution of 'Indian woman' in the freedom movement became more prominent mainly from 1920 onwards.  The Indian freedom struggle, under the leadership of Gandhiji, manifested itself in the form of a mass movement. In Bihar also the movement gained momentum. In the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930, on the call of Gandhiji, women started participating freely in politics.